Vortex III issues

[Flanagan]

I bought a Vortex III from PCSpecialist in June, with the following specs:

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3820QM (2.70GHz) 8MB

Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (4 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM - DX 11 (ETA 18th JULY)

Memory - Hard Disk
750GB SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200 rpm)

mSATA SSD Cache / Storage Drives
20GB INTEL® 313 mSATA SSD - SLC CACHE DRIVE- SPEED UP HDD

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
SONY BD-5750H 6x BLURAY WRITER & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE

Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND

Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack

Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N130 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence

The AMD card comes with "Switchable Graphics", which, as I understand it, switches between the 7970m card and the inbuilt Intel HD Graphics 4000. However, this doesn't seem to work so well for things like Skyrim, which refuses to recognise the second card, and will only run - like a slideshow - on the Intel card. I've tried updating the drivers for the AMD card, disabling the Intel card through the "Device Manager" page, and updating the Catalyst Control Centre. None of this seems to work, and I've no idea whether I'm playing games through the Intel card or the AMD one, of if that's just affecting Skyrim.

Can anyone give me some advice or help on how to rectify this?

On a smaller note, the key to change the colour of the backlight on the keyboard doesn't work. Does anyone know how to fix that?

(I apologise if this is tl;dr)

 

[Benadiction]

Mate I had the same problems, easily sortable though run any game or application you want, exit it, right click anywhere on your desktop and click on "Configure switchable graphics" in here you will see the applications you have run recently. All you have to do now is select "High performance" instead of "Power saving" for every application that you want your 7970M to run on.

As for the keyboard shortcut to the backlit keyboard. I just reinstalled the drivers for it from the disc that came with my laptop, sorry can't remember exactly what they're called but stick the disc in and it should be fairly obvious. Hope this helps

 

[Katarnus]

Mate I had the same problems, easily sortable though run any game or application you want, exit it, right click anywhere on your desktop and click on "Configure switchable graphics" in here you will see the applications you have run recently. All you have to do now is select "High performance" instead of "Power saving" for every application that you want your 7970M to run on.

So this is all you actually have to do to fix this problem with Enduro ive been reading so much about? No real need for a driver update then, i take it this will work with all games that have this problem? Ive been looking for a fix for this for the last few days deciding wether or not to get this card.

 

[Benadiction]

Exactly mate, I'm loving the 7970M, ok yea I'm using some modded drivers but the ones you get from pcs as standard are good too. Don't know what everyone's crying about to be honest

 

[Turtle]

The only downside is the Clevo models reportedly function more poorly with enduro integrated into the system. Alienware users have a Fn+F7 function to turn it off- allowing you to always use your 7970